Question | Answer |
How many things happen to a Noun Substantive | Six things happen to a Noun Substantive: Gender, Number, Case, Declension, Figure, and Kind. |
What is Gender? | Gender is a certain distinction of sex. |
How many genders are there? | There are five genders |
What is the 1st gender? | the Masculine, before which is commonly put the pronoun hic, as hic dominus, a Lord |
What is the 2nd gender? | the Feminine, before which is put haec as, haec ancilla, a handmaiden; |
What is the 3rd gender? | the Neuter, before which is commonly put the pronoun hoc, as hoc mancipium, a servant; |
What is the 4th gender? | the Common-of-Two, before which is put both hic et haec, as hic et haec parens, a parent; |
What is the 5th gender? | the Common-of-Three, before which is put hic, haec et hoc, as: hic, haec and hoc prudens, a wise person or thing. This gender belongs only to Noun Adjectives. |
What is Number? | Number is a note of quantity or multitude. |
How many numbers are there? | Two: Singular, which signifies one thing as puer, boy; Plural, which signifies many things, as: pueri, boys |